How many blogs does it take to get to the center of a toostie roll pop?

I find that getting people to read my blog is something next to impossible. I don't know if it is because the lack of promotion or the sheer boredom created by them. I am not starting a pity party, but am making an observation as to why I always stop writing blogs. Maybe this time is different. Maybe if I approach it at a different angle and not use it as a way to get my own personal glory, but rather as an outlet of expression. It is quite therapeutic to get my thoughts out there. I just need to stay dedicated to writing and doing it more. That has always been the reason that I stopped was that I did not make a habit of it. So here is to the future of my blog. May it have a long and prosperous life!!!

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Beautiful Day!!!

It was a beautiful day today. I actually got to relax with the family and not do ANYTHING!!! We went over to Bekah's parents house for lunch and ate the largest pork chops known to man. I swear they were the size of one of my children. Very delicious (Thank you Loring)!! We then came home and tried to put the children to bed. We had success with one of them (Abigail), but lost the battle with the other one (Nathan). "You may have won the battle, but we will win the war." But after getting the babysitter, a.k.a. the television set, to get Nathan's attention we sat down and enjoyed three episodes of Heroes: Season 3 (See favorite TV shows). After the headache inducing mindless entertainment, we actually decided to enjoy the glorious day. So we packed the kids up into the jogger and hit the neighborhood. I really enjoyed looking at all of the houses and getting ideas to landscape our yard. We have more of a "dirt" than a yard, but with time and love we will transform it. Anyway....when we got back the kids wanted to play in the front "dirt", so we pulled out their bikes and they played while we sat out front and enjoyed a NICE glass of red wine. "Red, red wine goes to my head......"

As the sun set and the night air cooled, I was thankful for what God had given me at that moment; a beautiful family, home, and life. Those are the moments that really remind me of how wonderful it is to be in God's will. Sure it gets rough sometimes, but when you just slow down and enjoy the days God gives you He will always show Himself through it all.

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The problem with technology.....

The problem with technology is technology itself. It can never be as easy as "free wifi" or "plug and play". There is always some kind of communication error when trying to connect to anything. Whether it is a new software update, or even as simple as connecting to a wifi hotspot. If your system is not communicating correctly then you will have a problem.

This is true with any type of relationship. If the communication is not there, then you are going to have a connection problem. If you try to implement a new "software update" but do not communicate correctly to all the interfacing users than you are going to have a problem. Now this isn't to say that there is never "user error", but if the "user" is not properly informed of how the "system" is to work then you are most definitely going to have a crashed system.

Now this was an uber geeky way of expressing that people need to have communication in their relationships. Open, free-flowing, never-ending lines of communication. There are all too many "error messages" that pop up because the "systems" are not communicating properly. So to finish with where I began, the problem with relationships are the relationships themselves. Non Christlike relationships are destined to crash and unless godly communication is there than the users can only expect to have connectivity issues. I believe that if you devote yourselves to one another with God being your IT guy then you should rarely experience "program failure". I hope this made sense.

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Slider Out!!!

So I was approached about two weeks ago by one of the youth at the church and was told that every time that I ever leave a place that I should exclaim "Slider Out!!" At first it took me back to the time in my life where I was always doing something to announce my arrival or departure. Of course this was to feed the deep down necessity of being the center of attention, but as I have gotten older I no longer have that battling within side of me. Yeah right!!!!

I haven't really thought about it much since then. Until yesterday when I ended my blog with it. So now I am left with a small desire to begin doing this silly ritual. Whether it was to let the present company become aware of the soon to be emptiness that they were about to experience (most likely not), or for it just to be something that the younger crowd would think would be "cool", I now have this longing to do it. I think that I will first keep it simple and low key, and limit it to each blog post. But soon it may become something that takes the world by storm. I cannot help that I have been blessed with an amazing last name. Not like "Smith","Doe", or even "Jinglehiemerschmidt". Jon Slider just has a ring to it, so with that I shall leave you.

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So it begins.....

   The first of maybe a couple blog posts.  I never thought of myself as much of a "blogger", so we shall see how long this lasts.  This post may be like a first date from a hot and fiery place, or it may be the beginning of a beautiful relationship.  

   My first experience with blogs would be with those of my sister in law in which she used her amazing talent of writing (in which she pretty much got a degree in) to express with intricacy the matters of simplicity.  None of which I would like to divulge in this blog.  I could not do her justice and most likely go on to embarass myself. (Does this even have spellcheck?) But if you are interested check it out for yourself, here.  Since then I have read some blogs here and some blogs there, but none that have inspired me to do one for myself.  That was until yesterday, when I gazed upon the blog created by my good friend John Chappell (see blog here).  Now I am "inspired" to pour out some kind of thoughts from my head into cyber space.  Do people even call it that anymore?

   So from here till I blog again, we shall see if anyone decides to even take a gander at this compilation of words.  Maybe I can continue to expand my horizons and possibly start a vlog, but I doubt it.  It is all about baby steps. 

   Well until next time.......Slider out!!!!